A painted-over wall in Detroit originally built to segregate a black community from an adjacent white development.

This elaborately-carved white marble fountain was built to stand outside the Detroit Opera House.

This former industrial site has transformed into a community sculpture garden that hosts monthly Full Moon parties.

This Detroit ruin was once a gothic bastion of its community, but now it stands as a haunting ruin.

A circle of giant painted vases in the former pottery capital of the United States.

A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.

This park pays homage to the region's rich industrial history of brick making.

A table rock formation that has been intriguing West Virginians for years.

The crash of this great airship signaled the beginning of the end for dirigibles.

All that remains of a gigantic earth-moving machine.

Visit a replica of the estate where Aaron Burr allegedly plotted a treasonous scheme against the United States.

Once home to a thriving oil industry, this town now sits eerily abandoned.

Once home to a booming 19th-century oil town, the park now houses a World War II submarine memorial complete with a torpedo.

A melancholy guardian doubles as a judicious godmother to this small town cemetery.

This smiling statue memorializes local cartoonist Bob Montana and his legendary creation.

This humble resting place belongs to one of history's most celebrated restaurateurs.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

A whimsical folk art environment where you can lose yourself in the many colors of joy, beauty, and creativity.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

The remnants of sheer survival in Dublin's monastery district.

A modest walled graveyard where nobody is actually buried.

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.